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    A ropeway is a transportation system that uses ropes and pulleys to transport goods and people across obstacles like rivers or ravines. Ropeways can handle steep slopes and large differences in elevation more easily than roads or railroads. They require little space on the ground and do not block movement of humans or animals. Ropeways are efficient to construct, operate, and dismantle, making them an economical transportation option.

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    A ropeway is a transportation system that uses ropes and pulleys to transport goods and people across obstacles like rivers or ravines. Ropeways can handle steep slopes and large differences in elevation more easily than roads or railroads. They require little space on the ground and do not block movement of humans or animals. Ropeways are efficient to construct, operate, and dismantle, making them an economical transportation option.

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    A ropeway is a transportation system that uses ropes and pulleys to transport goods and people across obstacles like rivers or ravines. Ropeways can handle steep slopes and large differences in elevation more easily than roads or railroads. They require little space on the ground and do not block movement of humans or animals. Ropeways are efficient to construct, operate, and dismantle, making them an economical transportation option.

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    A ropeway is a transportation system that uses ropes and pulleys to transport goods and people across obstacles like rivers or ravines. Ropeways can handle steep slopes and large differences in elevation more easily than roads or railroads. They require little space on the ground and do not block movement of humans or animals. Ropeways are efficient to construct, operate, and dismantle, making them an economical transportation option.

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    BASIC DEFINITION OF ROPEWAY:

    A ropeway is a form of naval lifting device used to transport light stores


    and equipment across rivers or ravines.
    It is a useful method of transportation for a very short distance.
    The first recorded mechanical ropeway was by Croatian Fausto Veranzio
    who designed a bicable passenger ropeway in 1616.
    The system crosses obstacles like rivers, buildings, ravines, or roads
    without a problem. Ropes guided over towers - low space requirements
    on the ground, and no barrier for humans or animals.
    The ropeways which transport goods in air is called Aerial ropeway.
    Simple, inexpensive yet powerful technology. One of the most energy-
    efficient forms of transporting goods and people. Relatively easy and quick
    to set up, operate and take down again. The most common materials used
    for constructing ropeways were first wood/fiber and then steel/steel
    ropes. The introduction of steel ropes and electric motors was a major
    efficiency boost, so these should be the preferred option.
    ADVANTAGES:
     Safety. There is no danger of collision between cars, or between
    ropeway cars and other modes of transportation.
     Ability to handle large slopes. Ropeways and cableways (cable
    cranes) can handle large slopes, and large differences in elevation.
    Where a road or railroad needs switchbacks or tunnels, a ropeway
    travels straight up and down the fall line. The old cliff railways in
    England and ski resort ropeways in the mountains take advantage of
    this feature.
     Economy: This reduces both construction and maintenance costs.
    The use of a single operator for an entire ropeway is a further saving,
    in labor cost.
     Structural efficiency. Ropeways are tensile structures - structures
    loaded primarily in tension - which makes them inherently more
    efficient than structures with significant bending and compressive
    loads.

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